Definition of "swaddle"

swaddle

/ˈswɒdəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present swaddles, present participle swaddling, simple past and past participle swaddled
1. To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
2. (archaic) To beat; cudgel.
noun
plural swaddles
1. Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.
  Quotations
  They put me in bed in all my swaddles.The spelling has been modernized.
  1711 June 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 90; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853
  The baby is awake, trying to escape the swaddle I have imprisoned her in.
  2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 207